Levant: Does the pope still matter in international relations?

By:
Ezra Levant
/
4 March, 2013
By: Ezra Levant
Columnist for Sun Media newspapers and anchor of a daily news commentary show on the Sun News Network

Yes, for two reasons.

Unlike politicians, he is not susceptible to the whimsy of public opinion, or the ever-shorter attention spans of the mass media. So where nation after nation abandons the cause of freedom in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pope can take the long view.

Second, the Pope does something that politicians often do not: he makes the moral case, not just a technical legal case, for his policies. So in a place like Nigeria, which is the front line between pluralism and sharia fascism, the Pope can articulate a policy based on right and wrong, not just the desiccated jargon of professional diplomats.

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